Match-box holder.



J. H. E SDORN. MATCH BOX HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 3, 190B.

920,297. Patented May 4, 1909..

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MATCH-BOX HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application filed July 3, 1908. Serial No. 441,741.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. ESDORN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Match-Box Holders, of which the following is a specificationf This invention relates to a match box holder of novel construction adapted to securely sustain the match box in position and present the matches in a safe and simple manner.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved match box holder, with the match box in position; Fig. 2 a similar view with the match box removed, and Fig. 3 a section on line 33, Fig. 1.

A plate 10 is adapted to be secured to a wall or other upright support by nails engaging perforations 11. is made an inverted. U-shaped incision 12 which partly severs and thereby forms an upwardly extending tongue 13 integral with the plate. This tongue is bent forward at its root, as at 1 1, so that it lies in a plane slightly in advance of that of the plate. At a suitable distance from its upper edge and above its root, the tongue is doubled upon itself to form a forwardly extending transverse rest or flange 15. By thus doubling the tongue, its length is correspondingly re- In the body of plate 10 I duced, so that a gap 16 is opened up between the top of the tongue and the upper perimeter of incision 12.

In use, a closed safety match box 17, of the conventional construction, is slipped over tongue 13, so that the latter extends between the back of the box and the back of the surrounding casing 18. After the bottom of box 17 engages flange 15, the pull on casing 18 is continued until the descent of the casing is checked by the lower end of incision 12. In this way box 17 will be opened a distance equal substantially to the elevation of flange 15 above the root of tongue 13.

It will be seen that by the construction described the match box is firmly secured in position, and that it is so opened during mounting that the matches are exposed to a proper predetermined extent.

I claim:

A match box holder, comprising a plate having an inverted U-shaped incision, and an integral upwardly extending tongue having a doubled transverse flange above the root thereof, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York city, (Manhattan), N. Y., this second day of July, 1908.

JOHN H. ESDORN.

Witnesses:

FRANK v. BRIESEN, AUGUs'r MINER. 

